Improvement in posts for wire fences



ZSheets-Sheet 1. S. REYNOLDS.

POSTS FOE. W IRE FENCES.

Patented May 8,1877.

No.190,6Z1

ZSheets-Sheet 2. S. REYNOLDS. POSTS FOR WIRE FENCES. No. 190,621.Patented May 8,1877.

WI NE INJENTEIF- UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIOEQ SILAS REYNOLDS, OF SUGARGROVE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROG EMENT IN POSTS FOR WIRE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,621, dated May 8,1877; application filed October 27, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SILAS REYNOLDS, of SugarGrove, in the county of Kane, and in the State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Posts for Wire Fences;and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription there of,lreference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a fence containing my improvements, and Fig. 2 a like view of ametal post provided with my improved engaging-slot.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

It consists, as an improved article of manufacture, in. a post for wirefences, constructed of or from metal plate, and provided within one ofits edges with a series of horizontal openings, which have inclinedconnectingslots, formed substantially as and for the purpose hereinafterspecified.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a fence-post, which is formed ofthin wrought or cast iron, and transversely has an -shaped form, theshortest arm being placed at a right angle to the line of the fence.

At suitable points between the upper end of the post A and the surfaceof the ground in which said post is set, round openings at are formed inand through the arm,which is placed at an angle to the line of thefence, and from each opening a slot, 00, extends horizontally outward tothe edge of said post.

The opening a has such dimensions as to permit of the insertion of afence-wire, B, while the slot at has equal dimensions from its upper toits lower sides, but is inclined at an angle of about forty-fivedegrees, so that said wire can only be passed through said slot wheninclined at the angle named.

After passing from the slot a into the opening a, the wire B is free toassume a horizontal position; but in consequence of the angle of saidslot with relation to said opening, said wire cannot pass from thelatter until turned parallel with the former.

This construction of the slot efl'ectually prevents the accidentaldisplacement of the wire, but in no manner prevents the ready insertionof the latter when being placed in position upon a fence.

In forming the slot at within the post A, the metal is divided from thecenter of the opening a horizontally outward, and the edges of such cutportion bent laterally in opposite directions.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new is As an improved article of manufacture, the fence-postA, constructed of or from metal plate, and provided within one of itsedges with horizontal openings at, for the reception of wires andlaterally-inclined connecting-slots a, that are formed by the lateralinclination in opposite directions of the metal immediately above andbelow said slots, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this7th day of October, 1876.

SILAS REYNOLDS. Witnesses:

R. W. GATES, W. F. GANDUL.

